The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-05-19
EvHTs OF THE WEEK.


EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic News
The Haythien and English governments
have settled al their difficulties, and the
former has paid the latter seO,00O.
The Wool Growers and international
Sheep Shearers' Association will hold their
second annual convention in st. Louis.
News has been received 1t San Francisco,
that the steamer Brenton was run into and
osnk BY the Fair Of Penang on the Indian
ncean, and LEO people were lost.
BY vote Of So to n the Mich igan house
passed the high license bill. The general
tax 10 placed at $iOb and on wholesale and
retail establishments It IL $500.
Drillers at the big gas well southeast Of
the city Of Findlay, O., drilled in . gasser
with . capacity Of 2O,00O.CO0 cubic feet Of
gas daily, the biggest in the world.
A seizure Of $4,000 worth OF smuggled
opium was made at San Francisco, CAL, by
customs officers, ON the 18th. The contraband
shipment was made from Hong Kong.
The captain Of British ship reports in
London that the crew OF the American ship
Accidental had mutinied, that tho captain
had been killed, and the ship was in charge
Of the mate.
John B. Finch, chairman Of the national
committee Of the Prohibition party, will &C
20 Texas to stump the state in favor Of the
prohibitory constitutional amendment. BE
y now flooding the state with prohibition
literature.
The controller Of the currency on tho 9th,
authorised the Western National Bank Of
the City Of New York to begin business
with . capital OF $3,5OO,OOO. The officers
are: Daniel Manning, president, and Fer.
dinand Blankinham, cashier.
There IL considerable talk In Ottawa Of
testing the feeling Of parliament on the
question Of commercial union with the
United States The members from the
maratime provinces and the extreme West
are almost . unit on the question.
Martin Bout, while blowing on his farm
near Michigan City, Ind, exploded Z
dynamite bomb which had been placed
there by unknown parties. His arm wa,
blown OF. both legs broken, and he wal
otherwise terribly mangled. He win hardly
recover.
The 12 Irish coustables who resigned
their Office because they were compelled t.
carry on evictions, and who arrived In New
York last week, announced their intention
ofbecoming citizens Of the United States by
6lling their application papers in tho cour'
| Of common pleas.
The United States revenue cutter Richard
Rush has been ordered to proceed to Sitka
Alaska, where she win take the United
| States Marshal aboard and convey him tt
| Onlaska for the purpose Of selling at auc
| tion the British schO0ners seized in the Behr
ing strait last year Tor illegal seal fishing.
:rJustice Woods, Of the United Htatei
Supreme court, returned to Washington
from California few days since. and ha,
grown worse since his return. He II n0v
| lying critically III at his residence, and hii
death may occur at any moment. He il
suffering from dropsy and complicattoo O
| diseases.
A cyclone struck Blue Springs, Gag,
county, Neb., Friday afternoon, and blew
down . shcool house from which tn
children had Just been dismissed. w. II
/ Rusburgh, the janitOr, was killed. Several
other houses were demolished. Mrs. Will
Matthews was killed by lightning during
| the storm.
Thursday afternoon. at Pittsburg. Pa.
Andrew Aaloney, employed on tho nev
court house. carelessly stepped from
stone elevator when 155 feet from th
ground. When picked up there was scarcel,
however, and sent : message to his wife ant
family. Shortly after removal to th
hospital he died.
Two Chicago barb wire fence houses a
signed at Chicago on the 10th. Mr.. Marsh
Il A. e.
mediate cause OF the failure the operation
/ OF tho interstate commerce act. He said
| "That bill has had the effect of simply shut
ting Ms out. We could not 60 out of Chics
i 60 with our products and hope TO do bus
meas on anything like . paying basis. III
anything but profitable for the last thre
years There has been too much over-prc
duction In barb wire fencing"
The earthquake May created sad havo
In the northwestern portion OF Sonors
Mexico. III: portion Of the state is "a
from railroad or telegraphic cOmmunica
ton. The following dispatch was receives
May 8, from Luis E. Torres, governor Q
Sonora: '.The earthquake caused terribl
damages to MoataEeuma, destroying sew
sral villages, but those In the Northwestern
al It houses destroyed and Bahispe wa
utterly destroyed, I'D people being killed
The house were leveled to the ground. ]
new volcano appeared, and tts eruptio
destroyed al the timber Of tho adjoining
valleys and mOuntains Further detail
are expected hourly" The volcano meu
toned In this dispatch 10 In the famou
Sierra 1adrs mountains.
Miss Henrietta Hempstead, aged 10,
most estimable young lady, was sho
through the heart. diving instantly, on sur
day, on the farm of her uncle, Capt. jaime
Blackburn, at Spring Station, KY. Mis-
Henrietta Blackburn, accompanied by he
cousin. Miss Hampstead, went out to shoe
at mark with . small rife. They wer
Joined by Samuel Blackburn, Q young ma
Of %, brother Of Miss Henrietta Blackburn
and friendly contention was begun %
who should shoot ct the mark hrst. Th
three engaged In . playful struggle Tor th
possession OF the rife, and in this struggl
the weapon was discharged. The M
fortunate young lady gave . slight scream
dropped on the blue grass and breathed be
last before her Mortified cousins realized th
awful calamity that had befallon then
Messengers were hurriedly dispatched Il
medical and other assistance, and It We
with tho utmost difficulty that Miss Blacl
burn and Miss HempafAedl moEner fQuln.
restored trOm tho snOck Occa0On00 Oy tl
unexpected and terrible death Of the youn
lady.
Political and Personal.
Over 5000 immigrants arrived at Cast
| nsndan N " Friday.